On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Chaz Sliger wrote: > What I find that "sucks" about them is that they don't switch, or they > switch only some of the devices, or they cause the system to not recognize > devices (usually keyboard/mouse).
This will happen when there's nothing in the KVM to keep the signal alive to the system(s) you are switched away from. Those ports time out, and stop listening. Basically, the system you've switched away from believes there's nothing plugged in any more, and switching back doesn't re-establish the connection. Sometimes unplugging/plugging will restore the connection, but that's a pain when you switch back and forth hundreds of times a day, and not a good idea on some video or PS2 ports. If the KVM is a good one, it reads the devices upon startup, and then when the system queries the various ports, it passes the info along. When the KVM is pointed at a different computer, it does whatever keep alive needs to be done on any ports attached to other computers. At least, that's how it was explained to me. Russell Johnson [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
